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Jordan Peterson Basically, I agree with Peterson's perspective. In traditional society, it was easier to find some meaning to life by means of religions, social norms, family, and social relations. However, at last, human intelligence has come to realize all creatures including homo sapiens are derived from star dust in the Universe a long time ago, and the Universe is just created by chance, through a process of from modern Scientific Revolution and the philosophy of Enlightment in17th century to recent astronomical development since 20th century. How can we stick with traditional values and perspectives in the time when we believed in geocentric theory, or Ptolemaic system though? It's natural that modern humans lose the traditional old meaning to life and wander around in the state of mental emptiness. However, we desperately need some meanings to survive in the world, whatever they are. For some more sensible, serious, and intelligent people who accept the biological evolution theory of Darwinism and Stephen Hawking's Universe theory, unfortunately, any traditional religious perspective can't show the way. I think the best intellectuals like Jordan Peterson suggests the rational ways to find where we are, where our civilization is going, how we can find the way to continue our spieces and civilization.The most desirable method is to work with rational intelligence. Religions can give us more comfort, but no truth.

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Jordan Peterson

Basically, I agree with Peterson's perspective. In the traditional society, it was easier to find some meaning to life by means of religion, social norms, family, and social relations. However, recently, human intelligence has come to realize that all creatures, including homo sapiens, are derived from star dust in the Universe a long time ago, and that the Universe was just created by chance. This thought  process has continued from modern scientific revolution, through  he philosophy of the Enlightenment in the17th century to the astronomical developments that have been made since the 20th century.

How can we stick with traditional values and perspectives in our time when we believe in geocentric theory, or Ptolemaic system? It's natural, perhaps that modern humans will lose the traditional, old meanings of life and wander around in a state of mental emptiness. However, we desperately need some sense of meaning to survive in the world, whatever it is. For some, those more sensible, serious, and intelligent people who accept the biological evolution theory of Darwinism and Stephen Hawking's Universe theory, unfortunately, any traditional religious perspectives are inadequate. I think the best intellectuals, like Jordan Peterson, suggest that the rational way is to try to understand where we are, where our civilization is going and how we can find the best ways to continue as a species and as a civilization. The most desirable method is to work with rational intelligence. Religions can give us comfort, but no truth.

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Oh, my, I didn't expect someone lectures his private religious belief.I don't like to listen to someone's preach about his blind belief.However, I know I can't stop those people at all. ;) I just want to get correction of my writing here, not boring religious belief, ugh..Go discuss to discussion section on italki if you want to preach your religious belief.
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True religión can give us truth. True religión is all about ego distachment , about the false self dissapear, in that way we all have within us the power to know the real truth and just let go so many books and stuffs, it is no easy but i ask... is anybody capable of shout out its mind? to put it in blank!? where is the atheism when there is no mind? wheere is our conciussnes where is no mind? don't respond to this... experience it !!
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Well, so complicated and sophisticated explanation must be given in order to explain atheism, but sadly I don't want to waste time in discussing atheism or religion with someone. I know there are all kind of people having so different values, perspectives about the world, so I don't try to persuade people, and don't want to be persuaded by others about religion.
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I agree too Peterson, but the part "Religions can give us more comfortable way, but no truth". I dont agree. I dont know if you have a religion. But I recommend to you watch Willlian Lane Craig videos, and read "Summa contra gentiles" author: Thomas Aquinas.

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